If he had only answered that last phone call from the World Trade Center . . .

Minutes before two jumbo jets changed U.S. history, New York police officer Austin Finley ignored the call from his brother, who’d been bugging him for days. Trying to live with his one regret causes hatred and bitterness to consume Austin, and when counselor Mercy Samara recommends desk duty, Austin resigns. Haunted by her own memories of 9/11, Mercy takes a job as a school counselor in Baltimore. When Austin, now an EMT, responds to an emergency at Mercy’s school, both are stunned and wary.

Finally their common, and painful, memories turn suspicion into friendship, then romance.

But hard questions linger: Can they truly move beyond their past harsh judgments and harsh words? Will their past finally bring them closer or, as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 draws near, drive them farther apart?

THEIR FIRST MISTAKE was ever telling the world about the wonders they had found.

They should have kept it all a secret. If they’d kept it a secret, fewer people would have died. When archaeologists uncover the largest ancient safe in the world, the wrong kinds of people will show up: criminals, mercenaries, treasure hunters.

THEIR SECOND MISTAKE was opening it.

Why would an ancient culture devote three generations to build a giant stone safe? Why would they bury it so the jungle could hide it from the world? Why ritually sacrifice one hundred thousand people to ensure its secrecy?

THEIR LAST MISTAKE proved the biggest.

This last mistake hurt the most. Their last mistake was to assume that nothing had been left behind to keep guard….

Olivia Franklin, a young, beautiful, British pediatric physician, has been told her entire life that she is the mirror image of Princess Diana. In a chance encounter with Lt. Colonel Phillip Churchill at a fundraiser in London, a 30-year-old secret starts to unfold when he begins to realize that this uncanny resemblance is no coincidence. Narrowly escaping an assassination attempt, Olivia is aware that her life is in danger. Daniel Whittemore, fellow doctor, and Olivia’s former lover discovers Olivia’s true identity. Recognizing the enormity of Olivia’s situation Daniel forces Olivia to flee London. Olivia and Daniel grow closer as the world crumbles around them. Pursued throughout Europe by Churchill, a man determined to eliminate her, Olivia finds herself embroiled in an international drama involving Scotland Yard, MI6, CIA, Interpol and Buckingham Palace. Churchill vows to end Olivia’s life and wipe away all traces of her existence. The threat she presents to the current line of succession, not to mention the public image of the Crown itself is forcing his hand. The Disappearance of Olivia is a story of such controversy that could potentially change the history of the British Royal Family forever. Where is Olivia?

Gregory was the first to rise from the grave. With no organs and no pulse he burst from his coffin demanding to know why he’d been buried. His subsequent book made him a billionaire and encouraged others to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, the decayed, mindless undead who rose next were nothing like him.

Lynne, Carol, and Marta are on a collision course with the same goal: they must stop Gregory. Join these three women as they battle supernatural forces and discover their own paranormal powers. They each have their own reasons for fighting Gregory, but the fate of the world rests in their hands.

Psychologist Abigael Gallant fought her way back from her ex-husband’s brutal attack that killed their daughter and left her blind. Now she “reads” audio books, runs with a guide at a local track, and has a thriving practice that specializes in treating the newly disabled. The last thing she needs is another man in her life.

Enter Detective Luke McCallister, a cop forced into counseling a year after a gun blast during a meth lab take-down robbed him of his hearing. Luke is fighting hard to stay on the force, but computer work and fingerprint analysis are not what he has in mind. Initially reluctant to Abby’s therapy, Luke’s barriers tumble because Abby sees deeper into him than anyone ever cared to.

Though Luke’s lip reading is excellent, he refuses to “listen” to Abby’s warning that his romantic overture jeopardizes her professional ethics. But when break-ins and threatening computer messages escalate into a physical attack on Abby and her guide dog, Luke walks a fine line between cop, protector, and lover. Unable to deny their physical attraction, Abby and Luke tiptoe around their personal baggage and enter into a delicate relationship.

Then Abby is kidnapped. While Luke puts his life at risk to find her, Abby discovers the ghosts of her past are back to haunt her, and the man she once loved was as much of a victim as she.

From the author of the #1 Amazon Travel Bestseller The Kindness of Strangers Mike McIntyre and his longtime girlfriend, Andrea Boyles, are in their early 40s and itching for a break. So they rent out their San Diego home, dog, cat and furniture included, and embark on a yearlong journey around the world. “We’re not out to find ourselves, or even to lose ourselves,” McIntyre writes early on. “We’re merely seeking a pause in our routines.” But the couple is soon swept up in the adventure of a lifetime: trekking in the Himalayas, traversing the Sahara on camel, scrambling over the temples of Angkor, crossing the world’s largest salt flat in South America, scaling a New Zealand glacier. The book recounts the odyssey in 48 dispatches from 22 countries. Among them: birdwatching in Indonesia, a haircut from Vietnam’s oldest barber, touring a notorious prison in Bolivia, haggling over rugs in Morocco, on safari in Nepal. McIntyre taps his self-deprecating humor to convey the joys, perils and frustrations of prolonged travel. When the couple ventures into a cyclone in Fiji on a rubber raft, he writes, “The absence of life jackets and paddles meant more room for our lunacy.” And during a ride across India with a hired car and driver, he notes, “His passing technique was so precise, I could see my horrified expression reflected in the chrome bumpers of onrushing trucks.” He also writes eloquently of such poignant moments as sleeping under the stars in North Africa, flying kites with a poor boy in Bali, and the death of a female tour guide in China. By journey’s end, he’s shucked much of his journalist’s cynicism, and he stands in awe of a staggeringly beautiful world and the resilient souls who fill it.

The Wander Year is based on the popular series of the same name that ran in the Travel section of the Los Angeles Times. It includes an excerpt from the author’s first travelogue, The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America.

Kiss your cookbooks goodbye and turn your kitchen-time into fun-time that’s all about creating great flavors without the fuss! Cooking Without Measuring teaches you to rely on your own taste and experience to cook creative, delicious meals without being bound to cookbooks and measuring spoons. Packed with sensible, practical tips, coaching advice and “non-recipes,” Cooking Without Measuring is like your personal cheerleader in the kitchen, giving you the confidence to taste and approximate yourself to a great dish, without measuring.
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Comprehensive no-measure guide, tips and advice
25 Non-Recipes, with many variations and ideas to change things up
An Eyeball Proportion Chart
Additional No-Measure Resources including books, websites and blogs
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